Horses were introducted to this part of the world mainly by the Spaniards. The first ones came with the Conquerors and after that, and thanks to these great plains, the horse became the best friend to the man in the new world.
Through this mixture of civilizations the Argentine horses -named criollos- became the best transportation for the new Argentine thanks to its tireless endurance.
In the first quarter of the past century Argentine cattle barons purchased from England and France the best thoroughbred horses of that moment, champions from England like Diamond Jubelee and Cyllene among many others that placed Argentina as an important thoroughbred horse breeder country.
Many Argentine bred horses won important races around the globe, about which we´ll later inform in this blog .
Criollos, plus the best English Thoroughbred, became an explosive coctail to create the Argentine polo horses, but a patient and passionate love of Argentine horsemen for these horses gave the secret element for this worldly known success.
Darwin, Tesio and other talented connoisseurs came to this country and saw the vast Pampas and their people. Be a part of this incredible journey for horse lovers.

Coming soon

This blog will place you in the Argentine Pampas, one of the most extensive plains in the world where these horses are raised in the most natural way.

Argentina is a horse country, you will see in this page how these horses are bred for these sports.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

A nice argentine TB Horse appeared "Fuego e Hierro"

Last saturday, in the San Isidro Racetrack, was placed in the 10th race of the day, the "Provincia de Buenos Aires Stake (GII Int), over the distance of 2400mts (1 1/2 m / 6 F), over turf track and in the middle of the mud due to the actual and unusual raining season, was won by Fuego e Hierro, by 8 lengths in a really nice way.

This horse races with blinkers (half cup as I saw) and shows and incredible performace for a horse born late in the southern hemisfere season (born on November 9 2006), its also remarkable that the started to race in the first races for his age in the past year (800 mts / 2 F / 1/2 mile) in his debut but ran in the following month December three times (?!), resume 4 races in lesser than 30 days.

After all these he raced again two races in January ( he won! over 3 F or 1200m), then he rested February (Poor horse!), then ran again one race all following months including four G 1 (Int) GP Santiago Luro, GP Gran Criterium, GP 2000 Guineas and GP Jockey Club, one G II (Int) Provincia de Buenos Aires and one G III (Int) Asociacion Propietarios de SPC de Buenos Aires, from 4 furlogs 1200 mts to 12 furlongs 2400 mts. Also run two times over dirth in the La Plata racetrack in stake races.

His pedigree is also interesting as he is by the American Stallion Pure Prize out of a Candy Stripes mare by one af the Argentine most prolific classic distance families, by Fallow. Also bred my one of the best Argentine Farms, Santa Maria de Araras.
He is her first horse to run with running age (3 y.o.).

His trained by not fancy trainer, Mr Conrado Linares.

You can see the last race won go to www.hipodromosanisidro.com, 10th race ( 10 carrera), click on Ver Video (see Video with a camera icon)

If your looking for something amazing in Argentine, this TB horse I think is something special.

Posted by Alex Suarez Lynch at 10:31 AM